The Infinity Before One I looked deep into his sea green eye's, deeper, deeper; straight into his soul. And what I saw was beautiful. We had seen so much evil and felt so much pain and bore the weight of the sky and yet his eyes maintained their youth and vivacity where mine had long since dulled to flint. In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight and their leafy tendrils gently sway, curling and flexing their ebony fingers as if waking from a deep slumber spanning the millennia. Clouds drift across the sky like sweet reveries through the minds of the people who've seen everything and iridescent brook water quivers with the fractured light of a solitary moon. She watches and waits for the suns rays to warm her complexion and thaw her frozen heart, only to fade beyond obscurity in the wake of her death-marked lover. I don't know how long we stood in that secluded glen; watching each other, as if nothing had changed, as if everything had changed, as if the whole universe had been sucked into orbit around the tree's and the clouds and the brook and the moonlight. As if the universe would begin and end with us. The grass glistens like silver, glinting with the rain of former days. The world is quiet here. For a moment it felt like things could change and I felt everything glow a little brighter; the breeze hush to but a whisper. Then he smiled. That sweet, carefree grin I was so used to seeing and everything stayed the same. As if it were all a dream. Percy: My ally, friend, confident, saviour, lover, my everything. And yet here we are, here I am, waiting for him to ask me. Seaweed brain never was quick to catch on.And now everyday could end in death. Maybe now he never will, maybe the universe will run out of eternity. Maybe it already has.
Out of time